fhurtday, September 24, If64

Goldwater View Would Be Factor

Border Dispute

Anyone who has read the writings or statements of Sen. Barry (oldwater is well aware that over a period of years he has repeatedly asserted that agricultural price support programs and farm subsidies should be eliminated from the program of the federal government.

In an address in Raleigh last week, however, Sen. Goldwater side-stepped this issue of his stand on agriculture programs by pointing out that it is Congress, rather than the President, who deter-

?roud Of Their Achievements

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES HIGHWAYS Two things that stand out In a four-year summary of acblevementa by the present State Highway Commisl(Hi are Items which have been oi historic concern in almost every state administration of the recent past.

They are (1) eliminating of highway fund diversions and (2) substantial reduction of highway fund support of the state prisons system.

Simply stated, the theory behind these objectives is expenditure of highway revenue for highway purposes.

The summary submitted to Gov. Terry Sanford reports progress in both areas, sufficiently substantial to be described as major accomplishment. It has meant that the present Highway Commission has more non-diverted

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CHANGES - The report lis^s the following among more significant changes in diversion policy and practice:

Transier ol cost oi prisons administration and capital improvements from the highway fund to the general fund.

--Transfer of costs of the paroles department from the highway fund to the general fund.

Transfer of a one-quarter cent gasoline inspection tax from the general fund to the highway fund.

Transfer of interest on cash of the highway fund from the general fund to the high-way fund.

INCREASE In the past, the gasoline inspection tax was earmarked for Inspections carried out by the Agriculture department and surpluses in this account were siphoned Into the general fund.

In the same way, the general fund received interest paid on highway fund money on deposit or invested in short term securities.

The effect of these and other changes and transfers, according to the report, has been a net increase of $12 to $15 million a year In funds available for highway maintenance and construction purposes.

PRISONS Divorcing of the I1s(ms system from the Highway Commissioo has been a gradual process, begin n i n g with legislative approval of separation of the prisons and highway departments nearly a decade ago.

However, under the separtr tloo the Highway Commisalon continued to contribute heavily and at times almost entirely to support of the prisons system. In the past few years, the Prisons system has become increasingly self-sufficient but continues to require fairly Isrge outside suiMMrt especially the areas of admin-

istratioD and capital improvements. These responslbilit i e s have now been shifted to general government.

PAID Prior-to 1963, the Highway Oommission paid the prisons d^Nutment i.785,000 a year for theoretical use of 7.000 prisoners for highway labor. Actually, there were fewer than 6,000 prisoners availaUe for this work even if they had been needed.

And In practice, the Highway Commission was able to use (xily a small fracticm of the amount of prison labor available and paid for.

In 1963, this system of payments was ended and a $5 per day per prisoner payment for a quota of 3,850 prisoners was substituted.

This has permitted a reduction of approximately $5 million in highway support of the prisons system and according to the report enabled the Highway department to begin modernization and mechanization of maintenance activities.

In the long run. It said this program should reduce climbing maintenance costs.

There have been recent conferences between prisons officials, highway officials a n d-' the Advisory Budget Commission on possible further reduction of highway support.

GROWTH - In addition to these built-in savings, the Highway Commission of t h e Sanford administraJUon has had more money to iH)end because of increased gasoline tax collections and larg e r amounts of federal highw a y money. It has been faced with ever-mounting costs per mile of construction and maintenance t all types, but has spent record amounts.

In the period 1961 through 1964, there will be a total of more than $270 million construction projects let to contract, not including costs of engineering and right of way acquisition. This Is an increase of 20 per cent over the preceding four year period.

In 1964 alone, the Highway Commission will let to contract more than $85 million in new construction projects, representing the biggest single year of contract letting in history.

MILES The Highway Commission does Its own maintenance work, a staggering and ever-increasing matter of expense. But in actual construction, the totals are impressive.

For exampel. m(w than $92 million has been spent in paving and stabilizing some 8,400 miles of secondary roads. On the primary system, which, with urban extensions, totals some 15,000 miles, more than $200 milllOTi had been spent In the four year period with major and minor improvements on 2,000 miles of this system including 200 miles of four-lane highway construction.

On the new interstate system. North Candna ranks fifth in the nation In percentage of Interstate mileage open to tnffic. In the past four years, apwroximately $70 million of new contracts were let for the interstate system in the state and almost 200 miles of new Interstate construction has been placed under contract.

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mines whether federal rarm programs are to be continued.

It is, of course, the responsibility of Congress to write farm legislation, .just as it is the responsibility of Congress to write all other kinds of legislation. Anyone who has followed the activities ol government, however, is well aware that the President has a tremendous influence on the kind ol legislation that is passed by Congress.'

At the beginning of each session of Congress, the President presents to that body his recommendations on the kinds of legislation that should be considered. While many of these recommendations are not followed to the letter by Congress in writing the laws, more often than not the legislation that is passed is closely in line with administration recommendations.

Should Sen. Goldwater be elected to the Presidency, he would not, of course, have a vote in Congress on farm legislation. He would, however, have a greater influence over the kind of farm legislation that is enacted by Congress than any one member of that body. His views would influence not just one vote, but many votes in Congress. And, as is the case during any administration, the recommendations of the Presidency have a better than average chance of being transformed into legislation by the Congress.

Even though he does not have a direct vote in Congress, the viewpoint of the man in the White House remains a major factor in determining what kind of farm program is followed by the federal government.

Hurricane Left Mark On N.C. Outer Banks

Although Gladys stayed well at sea from the North Carolina coast, she left her mark on the northern section of the state's Outer Banks.

The calling card of the latest hurricane did not become shattered homes, new inlets or broken highways. It was in the form of further erosion of the sand barrier that separates the states coastal sounds from the Atlantic,

The areas brush with Gladys points up again By HAL BOYLB the importance of the work of the Outer Banks Commission which has been assigned the chore of planning the preservation of the coastal barrier.

It is evident now, as it has been for some time, that it does not take a direct hit by a hurricane to seriously eat away at the already disappearing Outer Banks of the state. Severe storms far short

of packing the devastation of a head-on impact by ,

a hurricane are annually taking their toll by wash- be missed by historians.

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:Pets Lead The People

NEW YORK AP) - Pets lead, people follow.

This is part of the story of our clvllizatiMi which might

ing the sand banks into the sea.

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Some success is being achieved in the preven- the house is that

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coastal areas. For the most part, however, the best the ambition of the animal get

that can be said for the program so far is that it rather intermingled.

is delaying, rather than preventing, the disappear- Thats the situaon in the

A house Where I put my heart.

We have a conflict there.

You are a bom leader, Harold. my mother used eay while patting me self-confi-dently on my back and turning to her more necessary knitting.

Yes, yes. my son, she murmured consolingly but ah* sentmindedly, you're a natural commander of men.

Well, of course, as all mankind knows, there Is a lot of tmth in what she said. I am a bom leader and a natural

ance of the Outer Banks. A much more comprehensive program must be undertaken if the historic sand barrier is not to continue to be eroded year- TT* O

by-year at an increasing rate. wtn6r LQltOrS *'OQying. . .

i^0StrQnt Isn't More News For Public

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) It should be assumed that the two major political parties would pick presidential candidates who are prudent, responsible and restrained and that this can be taken for granted.

But both President Johnson and Sen. Barry Goldwater are spending a lot of time assuring the country they are very prudent. Indeed, without dwelling on that pai^ular word.

Johnson in this campaign, one of the strangest of the century and about as nonintellectual as any In memory, has been stressing his sense of restraint and responsibility. So has Goldwater, who calls himself a peacemcmger.

The campaign took this turn because Goldwater apparently thinks it necessary to protest how different he is from how he says repeatedly he has been pictured.

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Johnson apparently thinks tt good politics to take sdvsntsgs of Ooldwaters self-oonsdous-ness.

The President keeps emphasizing the need for restraint and reMKHulblUty in the presip dency without mentioning by name the Goldwater picture

that Goldwater wants to get rid of.

Oddly enough, Goldwa ter cant blame the Democrats alone for painting this picture, although theyre doing their best to keep it in public view.

Last month, at a unity meeting with other Republicans, Including former Presl dent Dwight D. Eisenhower, Goldwater said:

The No. 1 problem facing the nation. . .in this election . . .is the totally wrcng view our opponents will try to din Into the minds of every American voter that the election of a Republican president will somehow lead to war.

We will hear over and over again until November such words as impulsive, trigger-happy, imprudent, hlpshoot-Ing, and the like.

I wonder if the really impulsive and imprudent president isnt the (me who is so indecisive and vacillating that he has no policy at all with the result that potential aggressors are prompted to move because they know we have no policy at all.

But a reporter said to Goldwater:

Up to now its mainly been other Republicans who have been using these words against you. Do you feel that you have satisfied these Republicans on these points?

Goldwater replied: Ob, diuv ing the course of a primary campaign many of us use language we later wish we hadnt. I recognize it, however, as a major problem on my part. Then he accused Johnson of being Impulsive by telling tCooUnued on page 5)

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

One bill now before Congress is strongly favored by the American press. This piece of legislation is designed to clarify the right of the imbllc to certain government agency information and data. While it may not win final am;>roval before Congress adjourns this year, it is given a good chance when Congress reconvenes. The bill (S 1666) has already been approved by the Senate. It replaces portions of the present statute which defines the right of the public to such government information. The present law has been attacked ever since it was put in the statute books.

Criticism of the present law is based on two points. First, it contains vague language providing exceptions to the disclosure rule. These provisions too often give bureaucrats a broad leeway in interpreting whata good for the public to know. Under these vague terms these officials can refuse to disclose virtually anything they dont want to divulge. The second item of concern is that the present law does not provide a remedy in case of wrongful withholding o! information. There is no recourse to the public if an agency bead Insists on keeping

the secrecy lid on. Under such a law it is little wonder none of the agencies in Washing-t(m has been encouraged to divulge information to the public. Secrecy is a disease In Washington. And secrecy is always justified by claiming that this or that information is classified for national security.

It is not surprising that government agency heads opposed the bill now pending In Congress. This opposlUon is unanimous. One important addition to this new legislation Is the provision that complaints charging that information had been wrongfully withheld can be carried to a federal court which could enjoin the offending agency, order release of the information and punish officials for contempt if they dont comply.

The public is entitled to any information about the activities. business and duties of the f^eral government so long as that Information does not violate securltv regulations or divulge too secret or classified data which can be of direct harm to our national security. The tendency, thouvh. Is for the bureaucrats to hide everything going on In Washlnrton under the clasrifled label.

commander.

What haa confused my gifts is that I' have to deal with an acquired leader and an unusual commander.

Her name is Lady Dottle and she is a cat and she has been with us for a number of years.

She started as a small, furry, squirmy uncertain kitten. Then she moved inslduously Into authority, aa all feminine things do.

Recognizing the fact that I am a bom leader, she used to rub against my leg In plaintive self-assurance. If a stmng-er entered our realm she would leap instantly on t(87 of our tall, old-fashUmed upright walnut desk.

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Anything we set before her she humbly ate. And she grew and grew and grew.

As her size Increased so did her slef-confldence. Roughly now. Lady Dottie resembles an ambulant Indoor whale.

Where she used to be abashed and retreating, she now intrudes Into family conversations with a learned observation meow which has at least 12 different meanings.

She used to eat anything. Now when my wife, Prances, makes up her menu. Lady Dottie looks on with the air of a great lady wearing a lorgnette. If It Isnt fish or chicken, she sniffs in disdain.

She has become a family oracle while remaining a singular and decisive Individuality. She purrs on choice, never on demand.

Lady Dottle has become central to our life in many ways.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

President Johnson has said theres nothing to be gained* by injecting the issue of the Supreme Court into the campal^. But the Court is right there in the center of things, and has been ever since it started to tell the separate states what they should do about education, school prayers, local voting qualifications, and other things which many students of the (institution consider were left to the Jurisdiction of the states under t h e Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

The Court, at the moment, is causing terrible turmoil in states that have been ordered to reapportion their local legi> latlve districts in accord ance with the principle (rf one msn, one vote in both uw>er and lower houses. This turmoU has manlsfested itself, nationally, in the Senate battle over the Dirksen rider to the fcH^ign aid bill that would postpone redis-tricting for a year. The Dirksen idea is that, with a year's stay of execution on the reapportionment order. Con g r e s a might have time to consider a clarifying amendment that would enable the states to glva geographical represen t a 11 o n some recognition in at least one of two local legislative branches.

With Dirksen of UUnoia fighting Douglas of Illinois la the Senate over the issue, the contest has been joined between two important Senators. So how can you keep a fight of this Importance out of the fall campidgn?

Anyway, the truth is that the composition of the Supreme Court has always been a prime concern of both President and Presidential aspirants. It has to be for the simple reason that, in the 1 o n f run, it is the President who determines the nature of the Court. The President appoints the justices, subject to confirmation by the Senate which. Incidentally, Is not a body that is proportlonstely determined according to tha one man, one vote principle.

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daddy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was actually far mora vociferous than Barry OcHd-water In his willingness to make the Supreme Court an issue. He inveighed against horse and buggy decisions, he inspired a crescendo of attacks on the nine old men,** he enjoyed the crack about a switch In time saves nine'* when Justice Owen Rob e r t a reversed himself In a key case, and his final effort to pack the court (an indefensible way of changing it) led to 168 days of bitter Cwigrcs-slonal wrangling.

Before Franklin Roosevelt, other strong Presidents had made the Court an issue. Jackson told Chief Justice Marshall to go and enforce his own decision. Jefferson accused Marshall of being sophistical. Theodore Roosevelt turned on Justice Holmes for votbig against him In an anti-trust case.

There are two points at Issue this autumn Involving the Supreme Court. The first la whether Congress and the states shall have the ooportun-Ity to reaffirm, by Constitutional amendment If necessary. the Eighteerth Centurv semantics of the Foimdlng Fathers In the matter of school prayers and local legislative reapoortlonment. The FI rat (Continued on page 5)

Will Silver Coins Be Reolacec.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE ALL stand TOGETHER

We learn a lot about huni-canea with the passing of time. One thing we learn is that after the terror of the hurricane Is past, the sun seems to shine with a new brightness. The day following the big blow is almost always an Ideal and beautiful one.

The same Is true In the events of life. Sometimes they seem to hit us with hurricane force. We get bad days. We have seascms when everything goes against us. Sometimes the force of adverse circumstances plies up until we think we can edure the pain, sorrow, frustration, and disappointment no longer. Then the blow suddenly ceases. Quietness succeeds storm. Peace takes the place of fury. The SUB shinoa aaaiiL Nature

ceases to snarl and begins to smile.

Every country In tha world has its periods of devastation, particularly from natural causes. Soma appear to have It worse than others, but when the loss and suffering Is totaled up over a long period of time, everybody seeems to get about the same deal that la so far as nature and her eruptions are conoemed. And likewise It 8(xnatliiiia aeems that certain people are misfortune prone. They seem always to get the worst possible deal.

Undoubtedly there are a few such people in every genera-ti(xi. Some likewise seem always to get the breaks. But taken by and large, we all suffer and enjoy about the same In Ufe. Its hard to believe this while the going Is very hard, but ita true.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Gold has disappeared as a medium of exchange in the United States. The Eagle and the Double Eagle scream no m(N%. SUver certificates are being replaced. And now hard coina of silver may so(mi disappear.

Throughout history, the rulers of Uie people have diminished the value of their coins and currency. 8(xnetimes It was of necessity, to finance a wsir. Other times It was greed, enabling the rulers to rob the people of their savings. And in still oQier times It has been done to inflate the money supply to give the peasants a sense of weth.

The British penny is abbreviated d, This orlflnaUy stood for denarius, a coin valued at ten asses, from the Latin word deni, meaning ten by ten. Thus a coin once worth ten asses is now worth about a cent. Over the centuries the ruling clasaea have debased that coin to almost one hundred thousandth of its purchasing power.

Now the sUver dollar seems to be roUlng after the asses of the old Romans. ANYTHING WILL DO

Senator Wallace Bennett (R., Utah) has called for a reduction in the sUver content of coins. Any future price Inore** M Uw*- m*M

coins worth more than their face value, he said.

And so it might. The almighty doUar was once tied to gold but inflation made gold coins worth more than their face value, and they were quickly demonetized. Now gold coins may be owned only by coin collectors, and a $20 gold piece is worth $45 or more, depending on Its condition*^

Next, as the rulers of the United States allow the value of the dollar to slump and sag, the silver in a dollar may be worth more than $1. Because of this possibUUy, coin coUect-

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ing and coin speculatlcm haa boomed and zoomed. The Numismatic News lists rarer dollars for sale up to $500. That, of course, is because of scarcity, not silver content. But this speculation would not flourish if many Americans did not believe that the basic value of the dollar would steadily In-

Mesnwhile, the Treasury la reported to be studying the use of other metals and even plastics for coins. Some rather pretty blends of metals can make dimes look like gold. Aluminum money was tried In France, where it became known as peepee money, because its main use was for tipping washroom attendants.

Plastics are too light to operate coin machines, but the Uip dustry is busy trying to de-velop plastics weighty enough to start a washer or get a Juke box to play, Let Me Hold Your Hand.

THE FUTURE

And as time goes on, the day may come when American money is worth little or nothing, when disks of plastic and bundles of paper will be only good for paying taxea.

All our paper money today la worth la faith. The faith la good: Uncle Sam will accept it for taxea: the butcher will accept it for hamburger; the gas station wUl accept it for gasoline.

But as the purchasing power of paper money and sohj our change diminishes, so will that faith and some day in the future be will be in a bell of a mess.

Meanwhile, the shortage oi coins Is worrying many m e r-chants, With Christmas salea

coming soon and the demand for coins doubling, there ara serious fears that many salea wiU be lost.

The Mint has been increae-ing the supply of coins, but ev^ en nmnlng at full produetioA through Thanksgiving may not produce enough coins to pre* vent sales from being blocked at Christmas. The Treasury has decided that the issuanci of t(^ens by merchants is uiv> lawful.

However, these are t h 1 n g | merchants are conslderinkr

1. The use of poetage staappg as change.

2. The encouragement, of more charge accounts for Christtnas buying.

S. The uee of fraeUonal fift certificates as change a step that might run afoul of Tna* ury rulings.

4. The elimination oC^ odd-oente prices and the upa of more even-doUar prioea. Alt^ olei priced at 49 oenta may Increasingly be priced at 80 cents; items priced at 98 oenta may become $1. and gooda for $9.98 may beooma $10. la many placea, aaltc taxes woukl eonv plicate such a aysttm. and Ihty may lead to cute inaiead of rises. For example, where a 4 per cent aalee tax prevala 98-cent items may be out bad to 96 eeata to tiTril malrlri chanve.